THE TALK OF mE TOWN 45 tivities: crafts, horseback riding, archery. . . Circle the five that you're religious about, and sim- ply check those you'd like to try but have yet to acquire the nec- essary equIpment for. Kunkler and McGinty have standards. In order for them to do business with you, your weight must be proportionate to your height. The client who wouldn't have lunch with any- one unless she was worth at least two and a half million dollars was handed his walking papers. Same goes for the guy who, during his interview with Kunkler, took out his retainer and rested it on the arm of a nearby settee. Desperate- to-get-married types should keep it quiet-to Kunkler and McGinty, that's the plague. And both will tell you the same thing should you request a Cindy Crawford type: "Cindy Crawford is married to Richard Gere, and you're not Richard Gere." ASSillviING THAT ALL SYSTEMS ARE GO: Fork over five hundred bucks. Now you're entitled to remain "on file," as Kunkler and McGinty put it, for six months or until you've had six lunch dates, however long that takes. If a date shows up wearing Shalimar when you're an Obsession type, tell Kunkler and McGinty. Got stuck with a candidate for reconstructive surgery? T ell Kunkler and McGinty. Have a problem with anyone who uses the edge of her salad plate as a temporary resting place for her chewing gum? You got it. Kunkler and McGinty. Eventually, they're going to get things right. After all, they take exten- sive notes on each applicant: "A little ex- tra belly is O.K," "Very up on politics- used to lobby," "Can camp but needs a h " sower. THE LUNCH THING: Kunkler and McGinty have arranged everything. Get a scratch pad. You will be given three lffiportant names: that of the restaurant, that of your date, that of the maître d' who will direct you to your date. (Kunkler and McGinty don't run one of those tacky videotape dating services. Translation: you don't get to see before- hand what your date looks like.) MORE ON THE LUNCH THING: It's 'This is my version of The Age of Innocence.' " . dutch. Given the situation, it's a turnoff to insist on picking up the check, so don't get histrionic. Remember that at all times the focus is lunch. If things click and you both decide you want to, say, rappel off the side of a mountain, fine. But you'll have to do that some other time. If things don't click, how- ever, then you're no worse for wear, be- cause (a) an average lunch in a busy New York restaurant can last only so long, and (b) there's no awkward good-night kiss. ALL THE KIDS AR.E ALL R.IGHT ^SSER LEVY PLAYGROUND, which re- r-\. opened last week, is small, deeply shady, quiet, blazing with bold colors, semi -impossible to find, arid gloriously worth seeking out. (It's just south of Twenty-fifth Street, and backs up on the F.D .R. Drive, in a sort of leftover space behind Bellevue.) The centerpiece of the redesigned playground is a first of its kind for the city-an enormous, gaudy, turreted, and, most especially, wide- ramped and gently sloping play structure that is welcoming not only to able-borued children but to children who are deaf or visually impaired, or who have cerebral palsy, or who for one reason or another have to use wheelchairs. There are metal rings and an overhead ladder to hang from, for anyone with enough upper- . body strength; red, white, and yellow wheels to spin, which give a good work- out to shoulder muscles; white finger ladders you can walk your hand up; a blue half-tube you can pull yourself through; notched yellow handrails for more secure gripping; and wide plat- forms where wheelchairs can gather in a circle. A paramount purpose of city parks has always been to help citizenship grow by bringing together people from every background. Now, finally, the city's come up with an ordinary playground that invites children of all abilities to play together unsupervised. And there's another payoff here, too, because in reaching out to a new group of children Asser Levy reintroduces many touches that the sombre, hard-edged, modernist playgrounds of recent decades had no use for: bright colors; a rich background of pungent plants, from ferns to cedars; unexpected bits of gorgeous paving, from swirling pebbles to cast-concrete crabs. Asser Levy enhances everyone. .